Chapter 12: Chairman, You’re So Overbearing (2/2)

Xiao Yu’s entire hamster body perked up as he quickly took a seat in front of the table, staring straight into the screen worriedly. He was worried that Yan Jin would find out that he had logged into his account.

Although he was sure that he had already deleted all trace of evidence, when a person did something wrong, they would eventually feel worried of becoming exposed.

Thankfully, Yan Jin was smoothly clicking away with the mouse. He did not seem to have noticed anything abnormal.

Relieved, Xiao Yu continued to stare at the screen. Then, he surprisingly found out that Lin Zhou had sent a message to Yan Jin.

Lin Zhou. Actually. Sent. Yan Jin. a message!

At this crucial point in time, a conversation after six months!

Xiao Yu’s entire hamster body was almost sticking to the screen as he stared, fixated on Yan Jin’s draft content, not moving a single inch away.

“Fishy, I can’t see the screen with you doing that.”

Yan Jin helplessly released the keyboard and tried to pluck Xiao Yu off the screen, but he would not budge.

Instead, with that tug, he managed to pluck Xiao Yu’s paws off the screen but in the next moment, the soft and slippery fur slipped off his hand and the whole gray fur ball remained still as he blocked the front of the screen.

Sensing Yan Jin’s touch, Xiao Yu turned his head around and stared at him with his black, glistening eyes together with his little paws rubbing together in front of him – it almost drove Chairman Yan to death from his cuteness.

Yan Jin reached his hand out for that faraway tomato and nudged it on Xiao Yu’s waist.

“Take this and play with it for a short while, okay?” Yan Jin used an attitude that was meant for coaxing a child with a soft and gentle voice, persuading Xiao Yu to move away from the screen.

Xiao Yu’s mind went completely blank, unsure of what to do next. However, he ended up obediently taking that soft clay tomato from Yan Jin’s hand and walked to a spot slightly further away from the screen. He laid his entire hamster body flat on top of that tomato.

His inner heart could only be described as ‘unfolding on a magnificent scale’.

Lin Zhou really did contact Yan Jin. He knew that this was Yan Jin’s personal account. And he had clearly made his intention clear that he wanted to switch over to YL!

Witnessing words like, ‘getting suppressed in SI’, ‘talent not recognized’ and ‘SI is already corrupted from within, there’s no room for advancement’, Xiao Yu truly felt disgusted from the bottom of his heart.

He really did not understand what SI had done that was so wrong to Lin Zhou. And even more so, what had he, Xiao Yu, done wrong to him?

Lin Zhou claimed credit for his works and flaunted talent that was not even his to begin with, in front of Yan Jin. He even proclaimed that his efforts were not getting recognized.

Xiao Yu felt that he had reacquainted himself with Lin Zhou again – he had never ever seen someone who was so shameless.

But what made Xiao Yu confused was not Lin Zhou’s shameless act. It was Yan Jin’s answer.

Lin Zhou wanting to job-hop was not surprising, even if it was saddening, Xiao Yu was willing to accept the fact that Lin Zhou had betrayed them. Yet what he absolutely did not expect was that Yan Jin would react that way –

An attitude of complete rejection.

Lin Zhou sent an email to Yan Jin at first and then expressed his admiration towards YL and his loss of hope to Yan Jin through the online platform. Yan Jin also drafted a giant reply to Lin Zhou.

Without any politeness, Yan Jin’s reply was stern and unthoughtful. He first discussed Lin Zhou’s work (which was in fact, Xiao Yu’s work) and told him what YL’s recruitment standards were. YL would never reject anyone with potential but Yan Jin’s recruitment standards consisted of much more than that. For a person like Lin Zhou, who deemed his loss of hope as a company problem and planned to job-hop with his company’s confidential information, regardless of whether YL wanted him or not, Yan Jin himself would not respect him at all.

If one wanted to job-hop over, sure, go by the proper procedures. If he passed, then even if Yan Jin was the chairperson, he would still treat him fairly. But one should never think of getting into the company through contacts, afterall, they did not share any special relationship.

Xiao Yu watched as Yan Jin finished drafting that entire chunk of words and click the send button.

After a short while, Lin Zhou only replied with a single sentence. “I’ve learnt from your advice. I apologize.”

At that instance, a subtle and delicate feeling emerged from within Xiao Yu’s chest, it even overshadowed his disgust towards Lin Zhou.

If he really had to say when he knew Yan Jin as a person, that could easily have backtracked to a long time ago. Back to when Yan Jin probably still did not know that he even existed, he already knew about Yan Jin from all kinds of sources.

But being able to truly understand this person, that only happened within these few days.

In the time he spent with Yan Jin these past few days, he began to realize that his assumption of Yan Jin being a bad guy was indeed… questionable.

Even if Xiao Yu was not willing to admit it, the truth was that Yan Jin had defended his own company’s designers and berated him thoroughly. And he could splash tea onto a young lady’s dream of marrying into a rich family. Yan Jin did not even bother with the simplest form of superficiality, how could he have planned such a time-consuming scheme in secret?

The competition strategies in the industry had no clear lines; the winners had the last word. After so many years of being a designer, Xiao Yu had numerous works stolen or plagiarized before, which was why he knew that rule. Under the dignified appearance of those imitators, they were all despicable and cowardly souls.

Yan Jin was on the extreme end.

Yan Jin was nasty, fickle, and arrogant.

He had a perfect background and ability which was why he did not have to purposefully create another encouraging, good-natured entrepreneur’s image. He was Yan Jin, just Yan Jin. As the chairperson of Yan enterprise, he gave his all. As Yan Jin, he was thoroughly arrogant, and behind his reckless and free-willed behavior was a strong and mature heart.

Even putting all this aside, now that Yan Jin had directly rejected Lin Zhou’s request to job-hop, that was solid evidence that Yan Jin was not involved in the plagiarizing incident.